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Collectivisation of Soviet agriculture

The Soviet drive from 1929 to put peasants and herders into collective farms and take their grain and animals for the state.

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1929
Also known as
Collectivization of Soviet agriculture, Soviet collectivization
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Q821122

The drive to collectivise Soviet farming began in 1929 with the Stalin-led First Five-Year Plan. Scholars and the Russian State Duma agree that the famines of 1930 to 1933 followed from it; they differ on how far the famine was planned and whom it targeted.

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  • Joseph Stalin the First Five-Year Plan, launched in 1929 under his leadership Scholarship & press 1

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  1. The Kazakh Famine of 1930-33: Current Research and New Directions, East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 2016. Scholarship & press
    In 1929, under Stalin’s leadership, the Bolshevik Party launched the First Five-Year Plan, a program to transform society, industry, and agriculture across the new Soviet state.
    activists began a program of “full collectivization on the basis of sedentarization,” a scheme to settle and collectivize nomads simultaneously. Famine began in the winter of 1930, a year earlier than in other parts of the Soviet Union.
    The Kazakh famine was a part of the collectivization famines that afflicted the Soviet Union during the years 1930-33, most notably in Ukraine but also in the Volga, Don, and Kuban areas
    The catastrophe, which was sparked by Joseph Stalin’s policies of radical state transformation
  2. Food Shortages, Hunger, and Famines in the USSR, 1928-33, East/West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 2016. Scholarship & press
    The Kazakh famine was the direct but unplanned result of the total destruction of the nomadic and semi-nomadic Kazakh economy
  3. Statement by the State Duma, 2 April 2008: In memory of the victims of the famine of the 1930s in the USSR (UN document A/62/813), Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, circulated by the United Nations, 2 Apr 2008. Primary record
    suffered as a result of the famine caused by forced collectivization.
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